Senior Performance Engineer

What you'll do

• Diagnose and prioritize architectural problems across distributed backend systems to guide foundational technical investments.
• Design and implement solutions for application performance optimization, infrastructure management, and data model improvements.
• Optimize existing data models and streamline asynchronous operation patterns to improve system reliability.
• Profile and rightsize infrastructure while developing tools and observability to empirically validate performance results.
• Establish engineering quality standards, guardrails, and team practices to prevent regressions and maintain product health.
• Mentor engineers on backend architecture and system design to improve team engineering judgment and collaboration.
• Collaborate with product and customer teams to understand needs and make pragmatic technical tradeoffs.

What we're looking for

• 5+ years of industry experience as a backend engineer building and operating user-facing applications and infrastructure.
• Mastery of Golang, GraphQL, and Postgres with demonstrated experience delivering high-performance optimizations.
• Experience with a major public cloud provider, preferably AWS.
• Deep expertise in data modeling, db performance tuning, state management, API design, transactionality, concurrency, memory management, fault tolerance, and scaling.
• Repeated ownership of foundational system work in complex distributed systems, including diagnosing architectural problems and designing solutions.
• Excellent writing and speaking skills with the ability to lead real-time technical-design discussions.
• B.S. in Computer Science (M.S. preferred).
• Experience with AWS services (RDS, Elasticache, S3, EKS), Temporal, Istio, or Typesense (preferred).